8 Life Lessons Everyone Learns Growing Up In North Dakota
By Leah|Published February 25, 2016
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Leah
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Leah moved to North Dakota when she was 12 years old and has traveled from the Red River Valley to the badlands and many places in between. She loves small-town life and currently enjoys living on a small farm in the ND prairie. She's always had a passion for writing and has participated in novel writing challenges such as NaNoWriMo multiple times. Her favorite part about this job is recognizing small businesses that deserve a boost and seeing the positive affect her articles can have on their traffic, especially in rural areas that might have otherwise gone overlooked.
We all learn a lot when growing up and there’s many obvious life lessons that would apply to anywhere – like don’t touch fire, or stick metal objects into electrical outlets (I may or may not have learned that second one the hard way, but I digress). There are some things that are learned through experience, some that are taught in our upbringing, and some that just come with living in a certain place. Here are just a few that may come with being from North Dakota – feel free to add your own in the comments.
Many people here have gardens and are very generous with their delicious home-grown produce - especially the ones that have so much of they can barely give away by the end of summer. Anyone want some rhubarb or zucchinis?
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3. Be careful on the road - there are a lot of things that are out to get you.
Here is our good friend the deer, who always manage to step out onto the road at the worst possible times. I swear they just wait for a car to come sometimes.
And I'm not just talking freezing winters - triple digit temperatures are not unheard of in North Dakota summers and sometimes come with lots of humidity. And let's not forget the tornado-spawning summer storms to go with our blizzards that last a few days in winter.
I mean, yes the temperatures can get below zero without the windchill and we do get a hefty amount of snow some years, but the windchill can drop to insanely low temps and makes winters pretty harsh. Be careful out there if there's a windchill advisory - those things are no joke!
6. Check for ticks and apply ample bug spray in the summer.
If you managed to get through childhood in North Dakota and never found a single tick on you, you deserve some sort of monument made in your honor. Are there any of you out there? I genuinely want to know.
7. If you're going to go fishing, it pays to have a fishing license.
Driving on the country roads in North Dakota just because you feel like it is on a totally different level of relaxing than anything else, especially late in the day. And if it gets dark you can stop the car, lie on the hood or truck bed, and stargaze. I've never been able to do similar anywhere else and get the same experience out of it.
How many of these did you learn from living in North Dakota? Have a few more you would add to the list? Share away!
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